The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers

Sticky Fingers is the ninth album by The Rolling Stones, released on 23 April 1971 by Decca Records, while in the United States it was released by London Records, with the LP being their eleventh studio release on the other side of the Atlantic.

Although the official recordings of “Sticky Fingers” began in March 1970, the band had been at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama since 1969, recording “Sister Morphine”. The album was completed in 1970 at the band’s portable studio, finishing their efforts in January 1971 at Olympic Studios and Trident Studios in London.

The album cover was designed by Andy Warhol and is a close-up of a man’s crotch through a pair of jeans. On the vinyl version, there was a zipper on the cover, which opened to reveal a pair of cotton underwear.

This cover was censored and banned in Spain, to be replaced by an image of a can with the fingers of a human hand protruding from it.

“Sticky Fingers” topped most charts around the world, including in the United States and the United Kingdom, where it was certified triple platinum by the RIAA and gold by the BPI.

The single “Brown Sugar” reached No. 1 on the US Billboard, in the Netherlands, Switzerland and Canada, while in the band’s homeland it reached number two.
In June 1971, another single was released with the song “Wild Horses”, which climbed into the Top-30 in the United States.

Reviews for the album were particularly positive. Rolling Stone magazine ranked it 64th on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, as well as 31st on its list of the 100 greatest albums of the last twenty years in 1987, Classic Rock ranked it 36th on its list of the 100 greatest British rock albums of all time, Mojo ranked it 52nd on its list of the best albums ever made in 1995, NME ranked it 58th on its list of the 100 greatest albums of all time, Q named it the best album of the 1970s, and FNAC ranked it 45th on its list of the 1,000 greatest albums of all time.

In 2015, the album was reissued with an additional CD, which included alternative, acoustic, and live versions of the album’s tracks. The release climbed into the Top-10 in the United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Spain, as well as topping the US charts.

Through this historic album I select the composition of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, “Wild Horses”.

Tracklist

1. Brown Sugar 3:48
2. Sway 3:50
3. Wild Horses 5:42
4. Can’t You Hear Me Knocking 7:14
5. You Gotta Move 2:32
6. Bitch 3:38
7. I Got The Blues 3:54
8. Sister Morphine 5:31
9. Dead Flowers 4:03
10. Moonlight Mile 5:56